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    I might as well get in on this thread. 
    Been taking fitness seriously for the last 5 years or so. 
    I started at a very soft 205 lbs, like real soft.  Too many years of just doing dad stuff and eating trash. 
    I work for BP and I tried out for our mountain team in 2018. I barely passed the PT test and got on the team. 
    I cleaned up my diet and really pushed myself hiking hard pretty much 5 days a week. Dropped down to 170 but no muscle except for in my legs. I’m 6-02” so I looked like a skeleton at 170 but I could out-hike just about anyone.  Started hitting the gym again and now I’m up to 202 and pretty rock solid. 42 years old and feel better than ever. 
    I generally stick to a push, pull ,legs routine with cardio and core mixed in when I can. 
    The Gov gives me an hour a day to do pt on the clock too so that def helps. 

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    30 minutes ago, PRDATR said:

    Have him go down to the union hall in Tucson and talk to them. No sense paying to go to a trade school when he can be earning money and going through the apprenticeship locally. Tucson has some great union shops.

     A friend of mine has one of the biggest shops in Tucson and I can give him a call to see what he says. He has been in business for 30 years. Also hunts and when I spoke with him last year he told me he had 150 guys on the payroll. Both new construction and tenant improvement build outs. They do a lot of hospital work.

    Super nice guy. Feel free to call me or PM me. Going out of town to a trade school co$t's and then there are always all the "distractions".

    Chris 602-499-0610

    Thanks Chris all good suggestions. 

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    My son is trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life. He is not really interested in going to college. He has been toying with the idea of trade schools and has interest in becoming an electrician. There is a four year program in Idaho that gives you all the schooling.while simultaneously working under a journeyman to get OJT. The program prepares you to pass the Idaho journeyman exam. He has some connections in Idaho that would help him with a place to live, but his end goal would be to get back to Arizona and work here.  I’m assuming he could just take the Arizona licensing exam after completing the school and OJT.   I know next to nothing about this kind of stuff. Any opinions from Cwt electricians? Seems like a pretty efficient way to do it in my limited research. 

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    3 hours ago, forepaw said:

    Thanks for sharing that story.  What barrel is on your m700?  Also, is that a VX-5 or VX-6?  CDS or turret?  Lucky kids right there!

    Barrel is a fluted Bartlien 3b in 6.5cm. 
    VX-5 with turret. It used To be my dad’s rifle and was chambered in .243 win. 
    My buddy Clint (Stomp442) at Neff’’s custom rifles re barreled it for me and it shoots lights out. I kept the old wood stock for character and nostalgia. 
    All 3 of my boys have each killed a cow elk with it and a pile of coues deer. 
     

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    I haven’t shared a story in a while, been trying to find the time to write this one up and finally taking the time today. 
    I didn’t draw a tag this year but my 2 youngest boys did. 

     My 16 year old, Rusten found a spot he wanted to hunt and made a couple trips in there and scouted it pretty well. He found where we could get water and got a good lay of the the land but never found any big bucks. 
    The first few days of the hunt we decided to go to an area we were already familiar with. 
    After a pretty brutal hike we set up a quick camp and started glassing. 
    We quickly found a cool 2x3 buck bedded at 600 yards but while we were trying to decide if one of the boys wanted to shoot him, he got up and disappeared into the brush. 
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    By then it was mid-day so we decided to drop into the canyon and filter some water to get us through the next couple days. After filling up we made our way back to our glassing point. 
    At around 2pm, Rusten glassed up two bucks bedded at 800 yards. We took a good look at them and thought the bigger one might be close to 100”. My 14 year old Camm, decided he wanted to shoot the bigger of the two bucks so we made a plan.  774BB518-50E2-4438-AE53-9B83E70E3DF7.thumb.png.5b0747f942bd52c3876570e9b33a569d.png

    Rusten stayed on the hill while Camm and I moved closer.  While we were getting into position the bucks got up and started feeding.

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    We got to 415 yards and found a big boulder to get into a semi-prone position. He was able to make a great shot and put down his 3rd coues deer and his biggest buck yet at around 97”. 
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    By the time we got him broke down and back to camp it was 830 and we were pretty  exhausted.

    We got Camm’s meat cooled off and hanging in the shade and we were back at it the next morning looking for a buck for Rusten. He had his sights set pretty high on an only shooting a big buck. He has been lucky enough to kill two bucks around the 100” mark already. One of them was on the same hill that camm just killed his buck on so we were hopeful of finding another good buck.

    Unfortunately, the next 2 days the wind picked up big time and we only turned up some small bucks and a bear. 
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    We decided to pack Camm’s deer out and move camp to the area Rusten scouted  

    After a few hours at home we were back at it the next morning in a new area with high hopes  

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    Monday we found around 10 bucks, nothing big, but that evening we saw a couple that were too far out that looked promising.
     

    Tuesday morning we glassed close to camp at first light but by mid-day we were over were we saw the bucks the previous evening. 

    We were on top of a the biggest hill in the area looking down into some shaded cuts. 
    At around 2pm, I found a buck up feeding about 600 yards below us. As I was trying to point him out to the boys, he disappeared behind some trees. We were waiting for him to come out and another buck appears that was noticeably bigger.
    I wasn’t sure how big but I could see he had long beams and decent point length. 
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    Rusten decided pretty quickly he wanted to shoot him. Normally, I would help my boys find a place to shoot from and get the rifle set up for them but this time I just told Rusten to make it happen.
    We weren’t able to get any closer because of a big bluff below us so I gave him the dope for 613 yards and he knocked him down. 

    I was pretty surprised when I walked up to him to see that he was a better buck than I thought. This is Rusten’s 5th coues deer and also his best at close 106” 

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    We were beyond blessed on this hunt. My boys impress me so much with their willingness to put in the hard work chasing these deer in the backcountry. We had a lot of laughs especially trying to stuff the 3 of us into a 2 man backpacking tent. Good memories for sure.
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    10 minutes ago, bigorange said:

    Does it also work without the phone and app? That’s one thing I like with the InReach is having either as an option.

    Also forgot to mention the tracking…my wife used the tracking feature when she hiked the Grand Canyon and I could see her location online and track her progress. That was pretty cool and helped me know when she was getting close to the pickup location on the other end. 

    I’ve never used it without the phone app but the SOS and check-in feature both work without the phone. 

    There also is a tracking”bread crumb” feature that will update your position on a map for those that you want to share it with. It will update every few minutes I think. But there is an additional fee to use that feature. 

     

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    We stayed on the salt end and never could get into the crappie. We fished jigs and minnows pretty much all day in the brush from about 10’ all the way up to the bank. Caught several bass and eventually my l boys just started bass fishing. I kept trying all day. Might have had one on when we drifted over a ball of bait on the graph. I hooked up on a jig tipped minnow in about 10’ of water. Felt like a crappie but got off before I saw what it was. 
    Still a good day, despite breaking two poles and some sunburns. 

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    49 minutes ago, trphyhntr said:

    Did you find them yet 

    Not yet but haven’t got there yet haha. 
    My buddy has been there for a few hours just bank trashing it and waiting for me to get there with the boat. I just talked to him and he’s got nothing so far. Where do we need to go?  Tonto end?  Salt end?  Anyone wanna spill the beans? 

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